Province Matric Results 2025 – Pass Rates & Rankings

Analyze matric 2025 pass rate performance across South African provinces. Explore total candidates, achieved passes, multi‑year trends and relative rankings. Filter by year to see current or aggregate results, then drill deeper into districts or schools.

Tip: Select a specific year for annual ranking; leave blank to view averaged multi‑year performance.

How to interpret province matric rankings

Province rankings are a useful starting point, but they work best when you read them as a summary of a very large and diverse education system. A province includes many districts, and districts include many schools with different contexts. That means a single pass rate can hide important detail: cohort size, subject mix, and how evenly performance is distributed across the province.

A good way to use this page is to answer three separate questions. First: what is the current level? Select a specific year to see how provinces performed in that exam year. Second: how stable is the performance? Switch to “All Years (Average)” to reduce noise and see the typical outcome over time. Third: what is the direction? Use the trends to see whether a province is improving, staying flat, or fluctuating.

Always read pass rate together with Total Wrote and Total Achieved. Large cohorts tend to move gradually, while smaller cohorts can swing more. A small change in pass rate for a large province can represent many learners, so even “small” percentage changes can be meaningful. Conversely, a large percentage jump can sometimes reflect a smaller shift in absolute numbers.

Finally, remember that rankings are relative: your province can improve and still move down the table if others improved more. If you want an actionable view, use this page to identify provinces to investigate further, then drill into districts and schools to find where gains are concentrated and where additional support could have the biggest impact.

Province Performance Rankings
Showing performance data for the year 2021
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Rank Province Total Wrote Total Achieved Pass Rate Year
#1 FREE STATE 34,839 29,826
85.6%
2021
#2 GAUTENG 125,745 104,071
82.8%
2021
   #3 WESTERN CAPE 57,293 46,541
81.2%
2021
   #4 NORTH WEST 40,980 32,076
78.3%
2021
   #5 KWAZULU-NATAL 165,577 127,208
76.8%
2021
   #6 MPUMALANGA 65,938 48,503
73.6%
2021
   #7 EASTERN CAPE 91,193 66,553
73.0%
2021
   #8 NORTHERN CAPE 12,714 9,077
71.4%
2021
   #9 LIMPOPO 103,480 69,271
66.9%
2021
TOTAL NATIONAL 697,759 533,126
76.4%
National
Pass Rate Trends Over Time by Province
This table shows pass rate trends through color intensity and sparklines - brighter badges indicate improving trends, darker badges indicate declining trends
Province Trend 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
EASTERN CAPE 59.8% 65.0% 70.6% 76.6% 68.0% 73.0% 77.2% 81.4% 85.0% 84.2%
FREE STATE 88.2% 86.1% 87.5% 88.3% 85.1% 85.6% 88.5% 89.0% 91.0% 89.3%
GAUTENG 85.2% 85.2% 87.9% 87.3% 83.8% 82.8% 84.4% 85.4% 88.4% 89.1%
KWAZULU-NATAL 66.4% 72.9% 76.2% 81.4% 77.7% 76.8% 83.0% 86.4% 89.5% 90.6%
LIMPOPO 62.8% 65.9% 69.5% 73.8% 68.6% 66.9% 72.2% 79.7% 85.0% 86.2%
MPUMALANGA 77.1% 74.9% 79.0% 80.2% 73.7% 73.6% 76.8% 76.9% 85.0% 86.6%
NORTH WEST 83.1% 80.2% 81.1% 86.8% 76.2% 78.3% 79.8% 81.7% 87.5% 88.5%
NORTHERN CAPE 78.7% 75.7% 73.3% 76.5% 66.0% 71.4% 74.2% 75.8% 84.2% 87.8%
WESTERN CAPE 86.0% 82.8% 81.5% 82.3% 79.9% 81.2% 81.3% 81.5% 86.6% 88.2%

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